The fact that we don’t read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.
BENNETT CERFWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
HENRY KISSINGER -
When I open many books, or most leading women’s magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don’t find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.
BELA KAROLYI -
We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
AJAHN CHAH -
Never test another man by your own weakness.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.
BOB GRAHAM -
Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
OSWALD CHAMBERS -
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
WOODROW WILSON -
Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.
POPE JOHN PAUL II -
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
FIDEL CASTRO -
The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.
VINCENT VAN GOGH -
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR -
I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. – The sea witch.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN -
Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.
PINK -
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
Someone once told me, wherever you are, whatever you do, always keep on upgrading yourself.
YOHAN ACOSTA